different between leftover vs vestige

English

Alternative forms

• left over, left-over

Etymology

From left (“remaining, abandoned”) + over (“excess”)

Adjective

leftover (not comparable)

1. Remaining; left behind; extra; in reserve.

   Do you want some of the leftover supplies from the event?

   I have some leftover spaghetti in the fridge, so I don't plan to cook tonight.

Usage notes

• When used after a verb (as part of a predicate phrase), use two separate words:

  I can walk for miles and still have energy left over.

Translations

Noun

leftover (plural leftovers)

1. Something left behind; an excess or remainder.

   It's a leftover from yesterday, but it's still perfectly good.

2. (chiefly in the plural, usually of food) Remaining after a meal is complete or eaten for a later meal or snack.

   Not leftovers again!

   The entire wheel of cheese is a leftover from the party.

Translations

English

Etymology

From French vestige, from Latin vest?gium (“footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the foot, a trace, mark”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?.st?d??/

Noun

vestige (plural vestiges)

1. The mark of the foot left on the earth.

   Synonyms: trace, sign, track, footstep

2. (by extension) A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.

   Synonym: remains
3. (biology) A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.
   • 1904 Transactions of the […] annual session, Volume 40, Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, p160

     Any person seeing such a condition could not help being frightened at the conditions found, and it seems to me that that fact should lead us to think that the appendix is a vestige or becoming so.

   • 1932 John Arthur Thomson, Riddles of science, Ayer Publishing, p824

     Now this paired organ of Jacobsen began in reptiles and is well developed in many mammals. But in man it is a vestige, often disappearing altogether; and the two openings are closed.

   • 2007 R. Randal Bollingera, Andrew S. Barbasa, Errol L. Busha, Shu S. Lina, & William Parkera, "Biofilms in the large bowel suggest an apparent function of the human vermiform appendix," Journal of Theoretical Biology

     This idea was confirmed by Scott, who performed a detailed comparative analysis of primate anatomy and demonstrated conclusively that the appendix is derived for some unidentified function and is not a vestige.

Derived terms

• vestigial

Translations

See also

• hint
• trace

Further reading

• vestige in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vestige in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

vestige

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of vestigen

Anagrams

• stevige

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vest?gium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?s.ti?/

Noun

vestige m (plural vestiges)

1. vestige, relic

Derived terms

• vestigial

Further reading

• “vestige” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).